On the contrary, I'm NOT the one being the pretentious douche.
At no time did I try or even claim that vegetarians were smarter. I was the one replying to the person who claimed vegetarians were 'fucking stupid'. All I did was point out that the parent was mistaken for making such a stupid claim. Like I mentioned TWICE in my comment, I don't care if people eat meat or not. That wasn't the point I was making or even trying to make.
So don't get on your high horse and try to put words into my mouth. At no time have I tried to convert peope to vegetariansm nor have I tried to claim that being a vegetarian makes you smarter. READ WHAT I DID SAY. Just because someone is a vegetarian DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE 'FUCKING STUPID' as the parent claimed. That's the ONLY point I was making, and the list of famous vegetarians who were also brilliant was to prove my point, which I beleive I have.
Some people on slashdot seem to think that by name calling they can win an arguement. First the parent by calling vegetarians 'Fucking Stupid' and now you by deliberately trying to twist what I was saying to try to make it seem like I was claiming it makes you smarter. Learn to read. It might make your life a lot easier to actually understand what is being said.
As for your arguements about conscious and diet gurus, neither of these are the reason I don't eat meat. I'm allergic to the stuff. I'm also allergic to soy.
As for it making me smarter, like I pointed out already those are your words not mine. I never made that claim. So you can learn to read and can go get over yourself.
And just to repeat AGAIN, I don't care if people eat meat or not! [But will you pick it up this time? Probably not.]
Don't take this the wrong way, I don't care if you eat meat or not, BUT you've wandered off track a little.
Just becasue You're not a vegetarian doesn't give you open slather to start insulting us.
As a vegetarian who also has an IQ in the top 1% I'd like to tell you how wrong you are. Most vegetarians I know are actually highly intelligent. [And that includes their off spring too, who are normally also vegetarians].
But, let's checka list of some of histories vegetarians
Leonardo Da Vinci was a vegetarian. [Stupid was he?] He's probably the most brilliant human that ever lived.
Clint Eastwood; Paul McCartney; Henry David Thoreau; Mohandas Ghandi; All the Dhali Lamas; Albert Schweitzer; Thomas Edison; Albert Einstein; Nikola Tesla; Franz Kafka; Leo Tolstoy; Voltaire; Yehudi Menuhin; All vegetarian [and there are even more if you want to add to the list I'll let you google it]. IN fact, you'd probably be amazed at how many Professors and highly regarded Doctors are on the list.
So, don't go around saying most vegetarians are fucking stupid, as you're only insulting some of the greatest minds that ever lived [as well as some of the greatest minds they STILL exist].
So pack your prejudices away and just accept the fact that brilliant people can eat things other than what you eat. [And I'll just repeat so you don't go down the wrong road. I don't care what you eat.]
I'd apply for the role of Chairman, but I thought it might be nice to give someone else a go first. I mean, why should I be selfish and hog the position all to myself.:-)
I must be showing my age. Next you'll be telling me you've never used punch cards to write a computer program.:-)
In the story some of the scientists wanted to do just that. [ie try to fix the malfunctioning engine]. The security officer stoped them though... there was the real possibility of the radiation killing them all. But, if in a real life situation similar to Tau Zero, I'm sure a lot of people would take the chance on turning the engine off and possibly dying from the radiation, whilst others would wait till the universe got sucked back into itself and the second big bang occurs. [Like what happened in the book].
Technically any 'recording' is the copyright of the record company who paid for it. But, any Rap artist who wants to be included on a mixtape could either allow a recording of one of their concerts live, [by letting DJ Drama plug into the recording desk], or do a re-recording of their own tunes. This gets around the problem of the copyright on the recordings owned by record companies.
The only issue then might be if the rap artist signed a recoding contract which makes them only able to work for that one company exclusively. [Which is what stopped George Michael from recording for a while, as Sony had a contract with him and he was refusing to record with Sony, thus making it impossible for him to record with anyone]. However, if the rap artists only sign up for a One Record deal, OR puts a clause into the recording deal that allows them to release their own stuff on mix tapes, then that stops them breaching contract. [After all, if they've finished recording their One record deal, they can then do a quick re-recording and stick it onto the mixtape].
The only issues here are really those two - 1. the copyright on the recording (which any re-recording gets around) and 2. the contract the artist is under (which the artist can negotiate a 'mixtape' clause into).
But, I think the clever thing for the record companies to do (seems as mixtapes are such a good marketing tool), is to put DJ Drama on contract and get him to make mixtapes of their artists, thus providing publicity and boosting sales. Of course, I'd then recommend to DJ Drama that he has a 'non-exclusive' deal with the companies, else he'd end up being ONLY able to use one companies artists, so he could possibly work out a deal where he only has to do a certain percentage of artists.
How DJ Drama got his hands on 'unreleased' remixes is... probably a security issue for the record companies. BUT, the article does say that the record companies have been known to BANK ROLL the mixtapes. Wouldn't it be funny if some of the ceased CD's fit into this category. Those CD's wouldn't be breach of copyright.
I was thinking Half Life... but yeah, you're right.
I wonder if it would stop a grizzley bear fired from a rocket? [Or a polar bear, their endangered anyway, why not use them for a practical purpose while we still have them].:-)
And what about Sharks with Friggin' lasers on their heads? Does it stop those?
Sorry, don't take this reply the wrong way. This comment is for educational purposes.
You're wrong on a number of points. First of all, BLUES merged into part of Jazz well before Rock was around, so claiming Jazz didn't have much of an influence and citing blues as having an influence is a contradiction. The style of Blues that influenced Rock is the Jazz version of it, NOT the various [and there were various] different versions of it before hand. So the Blues influence is DIRECTLY through Jazz, and not from the Blues directly. Most of those 'non-Jazz' variance didn't have any influence at all.
I performed in a band (in the 1990's) which did Jazz / Gospel music from the 1930's, and if you heard some of the Jazz tunes from the 1930's you'd find them almost indistinguishable from early 1950's rock.
Ska didn't exist until the 1950's, which is well after the 1930's Jazz tunes which sounded exactly like 1950's R'n'R. So the influence you claim it had wasn't even around until AFTER r'n'r existed [and thus impossible to have had any early influence]. Ska really only started to make any influence on R'n'R in the 1970's. [And even then, I'd say the influence is restricted to most Ska bands and has little influence over most other forms of R'n'R].
So what you're calling 'Blues' was already an established part of what was considered 'Jazz' or 'Jass'. After all, Rock style blues came out of what was called 'Ragtime', and if you follow the music of ragtime into blues/rock you'll find there are slight changes here and there in each successive song where you can't actually tell where ragtime stopped being ragtime and jazz/Blues started and where Jazz/Blues stopped being Jazz/Blues and Rock started being Rock. It's a bit like the colours of the rainbow, you can point at a bit that is obviously a certain colour or a certain style of song, but when you get to the fringes where the overlap is occurring it becomes incredibly difficult to tell which category it belongs in. [And remember, this is a BEFORE Ska came into existence.]
Rock 'n' Roll was really just the name given to Jazz/Blues once it crossed over into the 'white peoples' world. [It's sort of funny, as the word Jass apparently means SEX and yet when white kids started listening to Rock 'n' Roll it caused an outcry as it meant SEX in a car! I always thought it was funny that some of the parents of that tiem period thought Jazz was okay but decried Rock n Roll for it's SEXUAL name!!!]:-)
It's true the whites then started mixing it with country influences and other things, but in many cases they didn't always.
Some people think Rock 'n' Roll should still be a 'sub category' of Jazz [I'll let the experts argue it out], but your comment that Jazz is a Unique style is very misleading. Jazz is a LOT of very different styles, [same as the original Blues is a lot of different styles, most of which didn't survive as popular music] and in some ways Jazz is more free than Rock 'n' Roll where most songs are limited to the old 4-4 time signature [though not always. Syd Barrett loved his 7-4 bars along with the occasssional Rock 'n' Roll hit in 3-4 timing, and Pink Floyds 'Money' in 7-4... but lets face it, Pink Floyd used to listen to a lot of Jazz, even their name is derived from two Jazz players, Dipperman Floyd and Pink Anderson.]
Jazz was integrating and fitting into other styles well before Rock even existed. Take 'Rapsody in Blue' - a serious merging of Jazz and Classical music written in 1924, well before Rock n Roll even existed. Then there are some of the wonderful Fusion [Jazz/Rock] mergings of Larry Coryell, Al Di Meola, and Miles Davis 'Bitches Brew' album etc etc who have proven it's very easy to cross modern Jazz with rock.
Then there is the fact that Jazz [even before Rock 'n' Roll existed], was borrowing from other places. Gypsy Jazz taking parts of French music, Latin Jazz using South American rhythms etc. Jazz really borrows, begs and ste
I have to agree. Not only Frank Zappa, but there were plenty of Guitar Heroes before EVH came about. Richie Blackmore is another one who comes to mind. Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton [after all, people used to graffitti 'Clapton is God' on the walls in the sixties], then there is Jimmy Page, David Gilmour etc. All those people had huge influences on music as well as being guitar heroes to multitudes of guitar wanna bees.
I agree that Suni needs to get a Lawyer. Sending letters to Apple and Walmart etc won't do much. Just marching Timbaland into a court of law for copyright infringement should get the desired result... [The 'should' being included in the sentence as sometimes even the most blatant rip offs have occassionally gotten away with it]. If Suni is a member of a Performers Rights representative group that collects copyright royalties [such as TEOSTO in Finland... APRA in Australia where I am], then after the settlemt in court [provided Suni wins], then TEOSTO will do the negotitations for the royalty payments with ASCAP or BMI in the US [whomever Geffen/Nelly Furtado use for their songs].
Though, even a win can sometimes leave the artist without their money [such as the Howling Wolf law suit against Led Zepplin, where, even after the Zep lost the lawsuit, the collection agency still wasn't giving the royalties to Howling Wolf.]
Apple and Walmart don't have anything to do with the infringement, [and most probably not Geffen records either]. Normally it is the Artist who has to make sure they get permission to perform any songs they don't own copyright on. In this case, it is supposedly the producer [Timbaland] who was responsible for the copyright infringement, so that's why it becomes a case between Suni and Timbaland. [Though Timbaland might defer this to whoever is credited as writting the song]. Everyone else can effectively claim 'ignorance' to the infringement or claim that under the law it isn't their responsibilty. Geffen records probably won't even touch the court case (so the comment regarding Geffen records having piles of cash in TFA and Suni not having enough to fight them probably isn't going to happen. Infringements like this are usually artist versus artist court cases). [This of course might depend on whether the courts consider Timbaland a representative of Geffen Records, in which case Geffen Records might be hauled in, but I'm sure the contract between Timbaland and Geffen should get Geffen out of the situation completely].
Copyright on songs only occurs on the melody, [not harmony. Using 4 bars of someone elses song without permission is copyright infringement]. So, I'm sure Timbaland might try to argue that as he isn't using Suni's stuff as melody [As Nelly is singing a different melody over the top], and it is therefore okay to use, but this won't work, as it 'is' the melody in Suni's song, and as such constitutes an infringement.
Then comes the problem of how Suni released the original song. If it's been made available for 'FREE' without a copyright notice of some sort, then Timbaland might claim he thought the song was either 'public domain' or it was permissible to use it for free. [Though, this might still be thin ice for Timbaland, as the court might find he didn't do adequate enough research to discover whether it was public domain or not].
So, this court case might go either way... but YES, Suni needs to get a lawyer, and the MONEY won't matter if he can get one to do it Pro Bono for him. Though, cases like these often take a few years [including appeals and stuff].
'IT professionals think nothing of wearing their scorn on their sleeves'
It all depends on the Department. I know a lot of the PC support guys I used to work with were pretty lazy. [Blaming everything on the Network]. Plus they loved to ridicule users who didn't know solutions to the problems which occurred with their PC's. [And let's face it, as far as the user is concerned the PC is just a tool that should work].
Now, admittedly some of those users were probably too 'untrained' or too thick to use a computer, [like the manager who couldn't get his floppy disk to work as he'd put it in upside down, or the manager who minimised his desktop in Win 3.1 and never thought of clicking on the little icon in the lower right hand corner to get it back. Or the manager who deleted his files and wanted me to get them back for him... even though I was a Sys. Admin at the time and NOT PC support. Or the guy who typed format C: to see what it did, as he'd seen it in a book... well, at least he was trying to learn].
But, at present one of the many things I do is train people who have never used PC's to use PC's, and a lot of them are very afraid of:
1. the PC itself [in case they cause it to melt down], or they destroy it somehow.
2. doing something mind numbingly stupid in front of other students or me [the instructor].
3. some think if they learn to use a computer it will forever change them into a computer slave. [Yes, yes, we all welcome our new computer overlords.]
When I go to one of our other sites in order to do PC support [because apparently when PC support is needed it's easier to call the Network Engineer rather than the PC support guy, as they want the issue resolved], they often appolgise to me for the stupid things they MIGHT have done. After all, it's only a tool.
Though, to be fair, you get it from a LOT of other trades as well. Like when my car malfunctions and a motor mechanic gives me a stupid look because I was supposed to know the cause of my car engine constantly stalling was some stupid electrical thing sitting on the engine. (Even though the last five mechanics I took it too couldn't find the cause... but the mechanic I take it too who does find it seems to think I should have known it, as though it is 'common knowledge').
I've never found Developers / Programmers to be too bad with users [I mean, some of them are naturally arrogant, but the ones I knew from BEFORE they became programmers were already that way.]
I've never meet too many Network Engineers to be too arrogant (though they do develop a hatred for PC support guys who always blame the network for everything). I've meet some arrogant Sys Admins, but I know from talking to their friends/other halves etc that they were arrogant before getting into Sys Admin.
Then, of course there is the problem that most NON IT people don't know the difference between one section of IT and another. I'm forever explaining that I don't actually DO PC Support, as I know very little about registers and DLL's etc, but becasue I'm in IT I seem to be the first port of call for almost everyone I know [except the PC Support guys who seem to think that any problem can easily be solved by blowing away the contents of a hard drive and re-installling everything... after all, that's what backups are for... right?]
But, the lack of distinction outside of IT for the different aspects of IT can be confusing for the users. I normally try to explain that PC support guys are like motor mechanics, while network engineers are like Civil engineers who design and look after the roads people drive on... I often tell the users, you wouldn't take your car to a Civil engineer and expect them to be able to fix it would you? And you wouldn't call the car mechanic to come fix the traffic congestion you've been having near your place, would you?
Alas, it do
I've never even seen Fosters on sale in Australia... but, as a person allergic to beer, it isn't my top priority to go finding it. But, I've never met an Aussie that drinks the stuff. I know it wasn't available at the pubs I used to frequent in Sydney, [and I haven't been frequenting any since coming to Perth so I have no idea if they sell it here or not]. Though I've only seen the standard Swan, Tooheys, VB, Emu and Carlton Cold [plus imported beers] in the liquor stores here.
Where abouts where you that actually served Fosters? I'm just curious in case they're feeding it to the Melbournites or something.:-)
Solaris 10 isn't exactly new. I've had a copy (along with StarOffice7) since July 2005. [Actually, it arrived in my snailmailbox in June, so technically I've had it since then]. It came free with Australian PC magazine. AFAIK, Sun Studio 11 has been available for free since Aug 2006.
Not that I disagree with your point in theory, as businesses do market their new products by giving samples away for free, just in practice for this case the product isn't new.
In this case they might be trying to get people to move towards them on x86 architecture in order to create a slice of the market. After all, as far as I remember they abandonded trying to get onto the x86 market a while ago, and then released Solaris 10 a few years after supposedly having given up.
It might also be a case of them trying to maintain their slice of the server market by getting Solaris 10 onto x86 servers, which are dominated by Windows and Linux at present. If they can get people used to using Solaris on x86, then it might open up a market to sell their hardware to people who become Sun fanatics.
"It's fantastic," reports Wayne Winch of Bishop, California. "I put the sun behind a neighbor's house to block the glare and the comet popped right into view. You can even see the tail."
I wouldn't call the economic pyramid that Flat in Australia. They've removed the 'minimum wage' and most low paid workers are getting paid less and less while the CEO's are giving themselves larger pay rises.
My own salary has slipped from almost AUD$80,000 four years ago to AUD$19,100 a year now. [This is in spite of me actually winning awards for my work and everything]. Considering the average rent in this city is AUD$350 a week, you can see why the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer.
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On the contrary, I'm NOT the one being the pretentious douche.
At no time did I try or even claim that vegetarians were smarter. I was the one replying to the person who claimed vegetarians were 'fucking stupid'. All I did was point out that the parent was mistaken for making such a stupid claim. Like I mentioned TWICE in my comment, I don't care if people eat meat or not. That wasn't the point I was making or even trying to make.
So don't get on your high horse and try to put words into my mouth. At no time have I tried to convert peope to vegetariansm nor have I tried to claim that being a vegetarian makes you smarter. READ WHAT I DID SAY. Just because someone is a vegetarian DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE 'FUCKING STUPID' as the parent claimed. That's the ONLY point I was making, and the list of famous vegetarians who were also brilliant was to prove my point, which I beleive I have.
Some people on slashdot seem to think that by name calling they can win an arguement. First the parent by calling vegetarians 'Fucking Stupid' and now you by deliberately trying to twist what I was saying to try to make it seem like I was claiming it makes you smarter. Learn to read. It might make your life a lot easier to actually understand what is being said.
As for your arguements about conscious and diet gurus, neither of these are the reason I don't eat meat. I'm allergic to the stuff. I'm also allergic to soy.
As for it making me smarter, like I pointed out already those are your words not mine. I never made that claim. So you can learn to read and can go get over yourself.
And just to repeat AGAIN, I don't care if people eat meat or not! [But will you pick it up this time? Probably not.]
Don't take this the wrong way, I don't care if you eat meat or not, BUT you've wandered off track a little.
Just becasue You're not a vegetarian doesn't give you open slather to start insulting us.
As a vegetarian who also has an IQ in the top 1% I'd like to tell you how wrong you are. Most vegetarians I know are actually highly intelligent. [And that includes their off spring too, who are normally also vegetarians].
But, let's checka list of some of histories vegetarians
Leonardo Da Vinci was a vegetarian. [Stupid was he?] He's probably the most brilliant human that ever lived.
Clint Eastwood; Paul McCartney; Henry David Thoreau; Mohandas Ghandi; All the Dhali Lamas; Albert Schweitzer; Thomas Edison; Albert Einstein; Nikola Tesla; Franz Kafka; Leo Tolstoy; Voltaire; Yehudi Menuhin; All vegetarian [and there are even more if you want to add to the list I'll let you google it]. IN fact, you'd probably be amazed at how many Professors and highly regarded Doctors are on the list.
So, don't go around saying most vegetarians are fucking stupid, as you're only insulting some of the greatest minds that ever lived [as well as some of the greatest minds they STILL exist].
So pack your prejudices away and just accept the fact that brilliant people can eat things other than what you eat. [And I'll just repeat so you don't go down the wrong road. I don't care what you eat.]
I'd apply for the role of Chairman, but I thought it might be nice to give someone else a go first. I mean, why should I be selfish and hog the position all to myself. :-)
I must be showing my age. Next you'll be telling me you've never used punch cards to write a computer program. :-)
... there was the real possibility of the radiation killing them all. But, if in a real life situation similar to Tau Zero, I'm sure a lot of people would take the chance on turning the engine off and possibly dying from the radiation, whilst others would wait till the universe got sucked back into itself and the second big bang occurs. [Like what happened in the book].
In the story some of the scientists wanted to do just that. [ie try to fix the malfunctioning engine]. The security officer stoped them though
We did install brakes on this thing, or are we heading towards soem sort fo Tau Zero sceanario? :-)
These ones come with Surgical Lasers on their firggin' heads!
Technically any 'recording' is the copyright of the record company who paid for it. But, any Rap artist who wants to be included on a mixtape could either allow a recording of one of their concerts live, [by letting DJ Drama plug into the recording desk], or do a re-recording of their own tunes. This gets around the problem of the copyright on the recordings owned by record companies.
... probably a security issue for the record companies. BUT, the article does say that the record companies have been known to BANK ROLL the mixtapes. Wouldn't it be funny if some of the ceased CD's fit into this category. Those CD's wouldn't be breach of copyright.
The only issue then might be if the rap artist signed a recoding contract which makes them only able to work for that one company exclusively. [Which is what stopped George Michael from recording for a while, as Sony had a contract with him and he was refusing to record with Sony, thus making it impossible for him to record with anyone]. However, if the rap artists only sign up for a One Record deal, OR puts a clause into the recording deal that allows them to release their own stuff on mix tapes, then that stops them breaching contract. [After all, if they've finished recording their One record deal, they can then do a quick re-recording and stick it onto the mixtape].
The only issues here are really those two - 1. the copyright on the recording (which any re-recording gets around) and 2. the contract the artist is under (which the artist can negotiate a 'mixtape' clause into).
But, I think the clever thing for the record companies to do (seems as mixtapes are such a good marketing tool), is to put DJ Drama on contract and get him to make mixtapes of their artists, thus providing publicity and boosting sales. Of course, I'd then recommend to DJ Drama that he has a 'non-exclusive' deal with the companies, else he'd end up being ONLY able to use one companies artists, so he could possibly work out a deal where he only has to do a certain percentage of artists.
How DJ Drama got his hands on 'unreleased' remixes is
I was thinking Half Life ... but yeah, you're right.
:-)
I wonder if it would stop a grizzley bear fired from a rocket? [Or a polar bear, their endangered anyway, why not use them for a practical purpose while we still have them].
And what about Sharks with Friggin' lasers on their heads? Does it stop those?
Sorry, don't take this reply the wrong way. This comment is for educational purposes.
:-)
... but lets face it, Pink Floyd used to listen to a lot of Jazz, even their name is derived from two Jazz players, Dipperman Floyd and Pink Anderson.]
You're wrong on a number of points. First of all, BLUES merged into part of Jazz well before Rock was around, so claiming Jazz didn't have much of an influence and citing blues as having an influence is a contradiction. The style of Blues that influenced Rock is the Jazz version of it, NOT the various [and there were various] different versions of it before hand. So the Blues influence is DIRECTLY through Jazz, and not from the Blues directly. Most of those 'non-Jazz' variance didn't have any influence at all.
I performed in a band (in the 1990's) which did Jazz / Gospel music from the 1930's, and if you heard some of the Jazz tunes from the 1930's you'd find them almost indistinguishable from early 1950's rock.
Ska didn't exist until the 1950's, which is well after the 1930's Jazz tunes which sounded exactly like 1950's R'n'R. So the influence you claim it had wasn't even around until AFTER r'n'r existed [and thus impossible to have had any early influence]. Ska really only started to make any influence on R'n'R in the 1970's. [And even then, I'd say the influence is restricted to most Ska bands and has little influence over most other forms of R'n'R].
So what you're calling 'Blues' was already an established part of what was considered 'Jazz' or 'Jass'. After all, Rock style blues came out of what was called 'Ragtime', and if you follow the music of ragtime into blues/rock you'll find there are slight changes here and there in each successive song where you can't actually tell where ragtime stopped being ragtime and jazz/Blues started and where Jazz/Blues stopped being Jazz/Blues and Rock started being Rock. It's a bit like the colours of the rainbow, you can point at a bit that is obviously a certain colour or a certain style of song, but when you get to the fringes where the overlap is occurring it becomes incredibly difficult to tell which category it belongs in. [And remember, this is a BEFORE Ska came into existence.]
Rock 'n' Roll was really just the name given to Jazz/Blues once it crossed over into the 'white peoples' world. [It's sort of funny, as the word Jass apparently means SEX and yet when white kids started listening to Rock 'n' Roll it caused an outcry as it meant SEX in a car! I always thought it was funny that some of the parents of that tiem period thought Jazz was okay but decried Rock n Roll for it's SEXUAL name!!!]
It's true the whites then started mixing it with country influences and other things, but in many cases they didn't always.
Some people think Rock 'n' Roll should still be a 'sub category' of Jazz [I'll let the experts argue it out], but your comment that Jazz is a Unique style is very misleading. Jazz is a LOT of very different styles, [same as the original Blues is a lot of different styles, most of which didn't survive as popular music] and in some ways Jazz is more free than Rock 'n' Roll where most songs are limited to the old 4-4 time signature [though not always. Syd Barrett loved his 7-4 bars along with the occasssional Rock 'n' Roll hit in 3-4 timing, and Pink Floyds 'Money' in 7-4
Jazz was integrating and fitting into other styles well before Rock even existed. Take 'Rapsody in Blue' - a serious merging of Jazz and Classical music written in 1924, well before Rock n Roll even existed. Then there are some of the wonderful Fusion [Jazz/Rock] mergings of Larry Coryell, Al Di Meola, and Miles Davis 'Bitches Brew' album etc etc who have proven it's very easy to cross modern Jazz with rock.
Then there is the fact that Jazz [even before Rock 'n' Roll existed], was borrowing from other places. Gypsy Jazz taking parts of French music, Latin Jazz using South American rhythms etc. Jazz really borrows, begs and ste
I have to agree. Not only Frank Zappa, but there were plenty of Guitar Heroes before EVH came about. Richie Blackmore is another one who comes to mind. Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton [after all, people used to graffitti 'Clapton is God' on the walls in the sixties], then there is Jimmy Page, David Gilmour etc. All those people had huge influences on music as well as being guitar heroes to multitudes of guitar wanna bees.
I agree that Suni needs to get a Lawyer. Sending letters to Apple and Walmart etc won't do much. Just marching Timbaland into a court of law for copyright infringement should get the desired result ... [The 'should' being included in the sentence as sometimes even the most blatant rip offs have occassionally gotten away with it]. If Suni is a member of a Performers Rights representative group that collects copyright royalties [such as TEOSTO in Finland ... APRA in Australia where I am], then after the settlemt in court [provided Suni wins], then TEOSTO will do the negotitations for the royalty payments with ASCAP or BMI in the US [whomever Geffen/Nelly Furtado use for their songs].
... but YES, Suni needs to get a lawyer, and the MONEY won't matter if he can get one to do it Pro Bono for him. Though, cases like these often take a few years [including appeals and stuff].
Though, even a win can sometimes leave the artist without their money [such as the Howling Wolf law suit against Led Zepplin, where, even after the Zep lost the lawsuit, the collection agency still wasn't giving the royalties to Howling Wolf.]
Apple and Walmart don't have anything to do with the infringement, [and most probably not Geffen records either]. Normally it is the Artist who has to make sure they get permission to perform any songs they don't own copyright on. In this case, it is supposedly the producer [Timbaland] who was responsible for the copyright infringement, so that's why it becomes a case between Suni and Timbaland. [Though Timbaland might defer this to whoever is credited as writting the song]. Everyone else can effectively claim 'ignorance' to the infringement or claim that under the law it isn't their responsibilty. Geffen records probably won't even touch the court case (so the comment regarding Geffen records having piles of cash in TFA and Suni not having enough to fight them probably isn't going to happen. Infringements like this are usually artist versus artist court cases). [This of course might depend on whether the courts consider Timbaland a representative of Geffen Records, in which case Geffen Records might be hauled in, but I'm sure the contract between Timbaland and Geffen should get Geffen out of the situation completely].
Copyright on songs only occurs on the melody, [not harmony. Using 4 bars of someone elses song without permission is copyright infringement]. So, I'm sure Timbaland might try to argue that as he isn't using Suni's stuff as melody [As Nelly is singing a different melody over the top], and it is therefore okay to use, but this won't work, as it 'is' the melody in Suni's song, and as such constitutes an infringement.
Then comes the problem of how Suni released the original song. If it's been made available for 'FREE' without a copyright notice of some sort, then Timbaland might claim he thought the song was either 'public domain' or it was permissible to use it for free. [Though, this might still be thin ice for Timbaland, as the court might find he didn't do adequate enough research to discover whether it was public domain or not].
So, this court case might go either way
'you can betcher ass the canucks have something somewhere about invading the USA what would they call it I wonder...'
The NHL Draft.
'IT professionals think nothing of wearing their scorn on their sleeves'
... even though I was a Sys. Admin at the time and NOT PC support. Or the guy who typed format C: to see what it did, as he'd seen it in a book ... well, at least he was trying to learn].
... but the mechanic I take it too who does find it seems to think I should have known it, as though it is 'common knowledge').
... after all, that's what backups are for ... right?]
... I often tell the users, you wouldn't take your car to a Civil engineer and expect them to be able to fix it would you? And you wouldn't call the car mechanic to come fix the traffic congestion you've been having near your place, would you?
It all depends on the Department. I know a lot of the PC support guys I used to work with were pretty lazy. [Blaming everything on the Network]. Plus they loved to ridicule users who didn't know solutions to the problems which occurred with their PC's. [And let's face it, as far as the user is concerned the PC is just a tool that should work].
Now, admittedly some of those users were probably too 'untrained' or too thick to use a computer, [like the manager who couldn't get his floppy disk to work as he'd put it in upside down, or the manager who minimised his desktop in Win 3.1 and never thought of clicking on the little icon in the lower right hand corner to get it back. Or the manager who deleted his files and wanted me to get them back for him
But, at present one of the many things I do is train people who have never used PC's to use PC's, and a lot of them are very afraid of:
1. the PC itself [in case they cause it to melt down], or they destroy it somehow.
2. doing something mind numbingly stupid in front of other students or me [the instructor].
3. some think if they learn to use a computer it will forever change them into a computer slave. [Yes, yes, we all welcome our new computer overlords.]
When I go to one of our other sites in order to do PC support [because apparently when PC support is needed it's easier to call the Network Engineer rather than the PC support guy, as they want the issue resolved], they often appolgise to me for the stupid things they MIGHT have done. After all, it's only a tool.
Though, to be fair, you get it from a LOT of other trades as well. Like when my car malfunctions and a motor mechanic gives me a stupid look because I was supposed to know the cause of my car engine constantly stalling was some stupid electrical thing sitting on the engine. (Even though the last five mechanics I took it too couldn't find the cause
I've never found Developers / Programmers to be too bad with users [I mean, some of them are naturally arrogant, but the ones I knew from BEFORE they became programmers were already that way.]
I've never meet too many Network Engineers to be too arrogant (though they do develop a hatred for PC support guys who always blame the network for everything). I've meet some arrogant Sys Admins, but I know from talking to their friends/other halves etc that they were arrogant before getting into Sys Admin.
Then, of course there is the problem that most NON IT people don't know the difference between one section of IT and another. I'm forever explaining that I don't actually DO PC Support, as I know very little about registers and DLL's etc, but becasue I'm in IT I seem to be the first port of call for almost everyone I know [except the PC Support guys who seem to think that any problem can easily be solved by blowing away the contents of a hard drive and re-installling everything
But, the lack of distinction outside of IT for the different aspects of IT can be confusing for the users. I normally try to explain that PC support guys are like motor mechanics, while network engineers are like Civil engineers who design and look after the roads people drive on
Alas, it do
I've never even seen Fosters on sale in Australia ... but, as a person allergic to beer, it isn't my top priority to go finding it. But, I've never met an Aussie that drinks the stuff. I know it wasn't available at the pubs I used to frequent in Sydney, [and I haven't been frequenting any since coming to Perth so I have no idea if they sell it here or not]. Though I've only seen the standard Swan, Tooheys, VB, Emu and Carlton Cold [plus imported beers] in the liquor stores here.
:-)
Where abouts where you that actually served Fosters? I'm just curious in case they're feeding it to the Melbournites or something.
Solaris 10 isn't exactly new. I've had a copy (along with StarOffice7) since July 2005. [Actually, it arrived in my snailmailbox in June, so technically I've had it since then]. It came free with Australian PC magazine. AFAIK, Sun Studio 11 has been available for free since Aug 2006.
Not that I disagree with your point in theory, as businesses do market their new products by giving samples away for free, just in practice for this case the product isn't new.
In this case they might be trying to get people to move towards them on x86 architecture in order to create a slice of the market. After all, as far as I remember they abandonded trying to get onto the x86 market a while ago, and then released Solaris 10 a few years after supposedly having given up.
It might also be a case of them trying to maintain their slice of the server market by getting Solaris 10 onto x86 servers, which are dominated by Windows and Linux at present. If they can get people used to using Solaris on x86, then it might open up a market to sell their hardware to people who become Sun fanatics.
"It's fantastic," reports Wayne Winch of Bishop, California. "I put the sun behind a neighbor's house to block the glare and the comet popped right into view. You can even see the tail."
Now there is a strong man with aspestos hands!
I wouldn't call the economic pyramid that Flat in Australia. They've removed the 'minimum wage' and most low paid workers are getting paid less and less while the CEO's are giving themselves larger pay rises. My own salary has slipped from almost AUD$80,000 four years ago to AUD$19,100 a year now. [This is in spite of me actually winning awards for my work and everything]. Considering the average rent in this city is AUD$350 a week, you can see why the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer.
Okay, sounds like they have a way to find Earth-Like civilizations. But what should they do if they want to find intelligent life?
I don't know. $1.19 for the whole of SCO seems a little pricey to me at present. :-)
Have you seen my stapler?
Toupee? I thought that was a tribble on his head!!!! :-)
I'm more worried about the coming of the great white hanky.
I'm trying to remember who he is, it sort of rings a bell.
Now you're just being silly. Everyone knows the ± key is next to the Anykey!
I think it's covered in the Spinoff series - Cafe-prica